... Australia have based on the broader microeconomic reform agenda of addressing the constraints on economic growth. By improving the competitiveness and efficiency of the domestic economy through measures such as deregulation, privatisation, national competition policy and tax reform, the economy shoukld be able to sustain faster economic growth in the long run, and achieve a lasting reduction in unemployment 9 ... use of microeconomic reform policies has also contributed to Australia's success in maintaining low inflation. Reduced protection has lowered the prices of imports. It has also ...

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... were physically homogeneous, aggregation of labour and indeed aggregation of output would still require stringent and patently unrealistic conditions at the economyv/s level". Moreover, "the concept of the economic meaningful aggregate production function requires much stronger and much less plausible conditions than the concept of an aggregate consumption function. And yet, undisturbed by Walter's conclusions or Fisher's findings ... , economists have gone on happily in increasing numbers estimating aggregate production functions of even more complexity, barely halting to justify their p...

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... entered the vocabularies of commentators on Western industrial societies and filtered down to people reading their articles in newspapers and listening to them on TV. Pre-existing concepts such as "competition" and "consumer" were given new meanings that subtly altered the degree of power previously associated with them. Globalisation "Globalisation" is now the concept most typically used to describe ... and products to avoid "relegation to "Third World" status" (Lyon, 1988: 1). Thus it is argued, "[g]reater competition ... does little in a positive sense to help build new industries. Acc...

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... 's trade deficit and the deflation in Japan. At the most recent APEC(Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation) summit in Bangkok, George Bush was under intense pressure to try and convince Hu Jintao to revalue its currency. International organisations are complaining over the unfair competition caused by China. By keeping the Yuan artificially low, China is stealing trade and ... jobs from other economies, causing record large trade deficits. Therefore experiencing economic growth, but at the expense of others. However, it does remain open as to whether ... certain level of control. Control w...

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... of ongoing concerns about the outlook for domestic demand and private investment. Japan's heavy reliance on export income as a drive for its economy at a time of worldwide economic slowdown, including recent deceleration in the US economy, anaemic recovery in Asia and concerns over Iraq, render the Japanese economy particularly vulnerable to external shocks. Japan's GDP growth ... ahead of Canada. 3.3.2 Relevant transport issues The Canadian Government in February 2003 released a new transportation policy framework setting out a 10 year action plan in relation to air and rail competition...

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... ,000 Americans visit Nicaragua yearly - primarily business people, tourists, and those visiting relatives. An estimated 5,300 U.S. citizens reside in the country. Nicaragua now appears poised for rapid economic growth. However, long-term success at attracting investment, creating jobs, and reducing poverty depend on its ability to comply with an International Monetary Fund (IMF) program, resolving the ... 1999 ($373.7 million), due to slower growth in manufacturing and construction. As the economy slowed, the demand for electronic consumer goods, manufacturing, and construction machinery...

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... vision of an "affluent society", an earthly material paradise, had dominated the mind of peoples for twenty years, to the point of blindness: all countries had thrown themselves into a competition of ruthless development and were concerned solely to measure their gross national income, on whose basis they compared themselves with one another, while being indifferent to the natural cost of ... be said that both are being transformed before our very eyes as the morphogenesis of the new interdisciplinary science of sustainable development progresses. Under the pressure of the same developm...

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